Brilliant piece by @jennykleeman.bsky.social. She is so good www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
This is an extract from the amazing Hiroshima memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, which was mysteriously buried in the archive of the writer John Hersey. (My interview with his fab daughter Koko, the baby of Hiroshima, is linked to it) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima
In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child
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The inspirational Koko Kondo was a baby when the A bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She talks to me about survival, why she turned her back on the city before returning to keep the memory alive, and the mystery of her father's recently discovered memoir www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness
On that fateful day in 1945, Kondo was just a baby in her mother’s arms. She talks about her father’s newly discovered eye-witness account of the aftermath – and why she decided to continue his work a...
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Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...
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One final bit of disingenuous myth-making from Rachel Reeves. "I said when I was appointed Chancellor that I would judge my time in office if the lives ordinary working class people have been improved" No, she didn't. Like Starmer, she always talked about 'working people'. There's a difference.
Farewell to the wonderful, chuckling, change-jangling, head-nodding, hard-nosed, kind-hearted, colleague-supporting, scoop-smashing investigative journalist David Hencke. An exceptional reporter. And an exceptional man.
I’m a fat, black, happy girl – they were always going to try to tear me down’ Lizzo tells me about her fall from grace, fighting back and what hurts most about the allegations made against her www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Lizzo answers her critics: ‘I’m a fat, black, happy girl – they were always going to try to tear me down’
Three years ago, the pop star was riding high after a sellout tour. But then a slew of shocking accusations from her former dancers changed everything. Where does she go from here?
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Anybody worried about the safety of Jeremy Bamber's conviction for killing five members of his family should watch this doc on C5 tonight at 9pm x.com/Channel5Pres...
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Anybody interested in the case ofJeremy Bamber, who has been imprisoned for 41 years after being convicted of killing five family members, should watch this. Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence - The Missing Phone Call – TX, Monday 8th June - 9pm @channel5_tv
My interview with the fab Rupert Everett, who's had a bit of a life www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett
‘Brash, disingenuous, lethal’: that’s how the 67-year-old actor describes his younger self. He lied to his partners, disrespected his audiences, betrayed his friends. Has this indiscreet, unreliable h...
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I joined Ken Macdonald, Tim Owen and John Podmore on Double Jeopardy podcast to discuss the outrageous ban on Jeremy Bamber talking to the press. Please give it a listen if you get a chance. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
Jeremy Bamber and a Free Press: UK Justice Turns Out the Lights
Podcast Episode · Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics · 27 May · 49min
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This is my tribute to the great Bernardo (Silva) (running down the wing. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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I thought I was going to interview Derek Jacobi. And I ended up interviewing Derek and his husband Richard Clifford. Bloody wonderful they are. Properly life affirming, funny and full of soul www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg
The giant of stage and screen is 87 and still hates looking in the mirror. At home with his husband, he talks about weeping, sleeping with Daniel Craig, terrifying directors and the joys of white wine...
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'Starmer's managed to get both the left and the right to fucking hate his guts. I just want someone to speak and you believe them, and we haven’t had that in so long I’ve forgotten what it’s like.' Danny Dyer plays the diplomat with me. (For a bit.) www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals
The actor has always been full of surprises – and now thanks to Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster he’s become a romantic lead. As the series returns, he talks about marriage, masculinity and meditation
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I spoke to John Robins about his book, Thirst. He's brilliant on alcoholism and is a lovely man (though he tells me i might not have said so a few years ago) www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
‘I wanted alcohol to take me to a place where I was not’: comedian John Robins on the moment he realised he had a drinking problem
For most of his life, John Robins assumed he got more out of alcohol than it took from him. Now he knows it was the other way round
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Sarah Green's parents mother ran the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, which controlled every aspect of their members' lives and abused children. She tells me how she eventually escaped the US cult that almost destroyed her. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’
Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a ‘free love ministry’ in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist. Her daughter Sarah talks about he...
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Woody Brown is non-speaking, autistic and a brilliant new novelist. I interviewed him, and he's bloody amazing. Would be great if you could share www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘I was in the pit of despair’: Non-speaking autistic novelist Woody Brown on his journey from write-off to writer
As a child, Brown was underestimated, infantilised and dismissed by specialists and teachers. Now 28, he has written an acclaimed debut novel set in an adult day care centre that gives people like him...
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'This is Elvis Aaron Presley, and you make me feel like dancing' In 153 years of interviewing I don't think I've ever met anybody with stories like Leo Sayer. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
The unbelievable life of Leo Sayer! The songs, the sex, being swindled – and a spooky phone call from Elvis
He lit up the 1970s with a string of hits, before falling out of the public eye. But was any man ever more connected? He discusses extraordinary encounters with Muhammad Ali and Keith Moon – and why h...
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@robevansgdn.bsky.social has been brilliant in his pursuit of the undercover cops scandal over the years. Here's yet another shocking betrayal of everything decent by the police www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover officer deceived women with ‘grotesque and cruel’ lies, spycops inquiry told
Carlo Soracchi admits exploiting empathy of woman who had abusive father by claiming his father abused his sister
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This is my interview with the inspirational Corinne Bailey Rae. She's brilliant on grief and what the music press wanted from women in the noughties www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘If you weren’t tits-out-for-the-lads, they called you middle of the road’
Her first album was a huge hit – then she faced the sudden tragedy of her husband’s early death. She describes the rupture of grief, her return to music and the harsh reality of fame as a woman in the...
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The case against Jeremy Bamber was built around the use of a silencer. Now, after 41 years in jail, one of Britain's top forensic physicians, commissioned by the Guardian, has analysed crime scene photographs and concluded that a silencer was not used www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Well, this made me bawl. Immense courage of the sort we never see but also an openness to talking about her mistakes.
Simon Hattenstone@shattenstone.bsky.social · 5mo agoThere are not many politicians (or people full stop) who have had a life like Labour's Naz Shah. She tells me all about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There are not many politicians (or people full stop) who have had a life like Labour's Naz Shah. She tells me all about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murder
The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes,...
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I go on the road with Zack Polanski. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub
With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...
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This is a piece on how my GP practice appeared to be misuing the new online booking service by suggesting it's the only way of making appointments. (ie not through phone or walk-in) If something similar has happened to you, I'd be interested to hear about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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